EEG-power and -coherence changes in a unimodal and a crossmodal working memory task with visual and kinesthetic stimuli

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-95

  Seemuller A ^a   Müller, E M ^a   Rosler F ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossmodal matching; Haptics; Kinesthetic representations; Synchronization; Visual representations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855245635     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: 18727697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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